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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would like to highlight two postdoctoral positions in the project Neuronal Mechanisms of Reading in Children Using OPM-MEG at the University of Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit�� Deadline 30 Sep.

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We're hiring! 2 postdocs + 3 PhD students to join InfantNeuroAI at Trinity College Dublin: awake infant fMRI & OPM-MEG, plus computational models of how infants learn. Aims: understand infant visual cognition, infant neuroimaging methods, more energy-efficient learning 🧵 www.cusacklab.org/vacancies

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Sabine Hunnius @sabinehunnius.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Postdoc alert! Interested in computational modelling + infant cognition? Come work with @maxhinne.bsky.social, @francescopoli.bsky.social, and me on a project using computational models to understand cognitive development in early childhood. More information: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

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Postdoc Position: A Model-Based Approach to Understanding Cognitive Development in Early Childhood | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Postdoc at the Donders Centre for Cognition? Check our vacancy!

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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...: brain alignment in DNNs is almost fully complete at 3% of training. Features involved in classification are largely independent of those that predict the brain. With @niklasmuller.bsky.social , @irisgroen.bsky.social. @marcelvangerven.bsky.social

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for #InfantNeuroAI The project will investigate how human infants learn to understand the visual world, by combining awake infant neuroimaging (fMRI and OPM-MEG) with computational models from AI.

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Cognitive Neuroscience Society @cogneuronews.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

What and how do babies see? Rhodri Cusack discusses early visual development. Come to the session for the pics of babies (like the one below of baby watching "infant IMAX") and stay for the great science! @rhodricusack.bsky.social #CNS2026 2/

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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Language areas in the cerebellar mapped by @coltoncasto.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/language/cer... Very consistent with @carobellum.bsky.social functional atlas, but providing deeper details. By now the "terra incognita" of the cerebellum isn't so "incognita" anymore!

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Cerebellum responds to language like cortical areas

One of four language-responsive cerebellar regions may encode meaningful information, much like the cortical language network in the left hemisphere, according to a new study.

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

And thank you so much to all of our participants and their families!

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Infants organise their visual world into categories at two-months-old! So happy to see these results published - congratulations Cliona and the rest of the FOUNDCOG team.

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Delighted to announce with my colleagues Prof Yvonne Daly, Dublin City Uni; Prof Dave Walsh Walsh, De Montfort Uni; Prof Bennett Kleinberg, Tilburg Uni, we have secured an ERC Synergy grant entitled JUSTICE (or ‘Joining Unique Strategies Together For Interrogative Coercion Elimination).

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

We are delighted to be able to thank the @erc.europa.eu European Research Council (ERC) for the funding award of €10,403,517 for this six-year project. @tcddublin.bsky.social @trinityneuro.bsky.social & @tcdpsychology.bsky.social Trinity College Dublin will host my work.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Ever wonder how habituation works? Here's our attempt to understand: A stimulus-computable rational model of visual habituation in infants and adults doi.org/10.7554/eLif... This is the thesis of two wonderful students: @anjiecao.bsky.social @galraz.bsky.social, w/ @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social

conceptual schema for different habituation models

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Amazing talk from @sjblakemore.bsky.social at #flux2025 - childhood and the age of legal responsibility; voting age; graduated driving licenses.

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Wearable TCD brain scanner a 'gamechanger' for research www.rte.ie/news/ireland... @trinityneuro.bsky.social

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Mark H Johnson @markhjoh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Finally got around to this interesting exchange. Much to like! However, in my view neonate cortex is building a foundation model while sub-cortical sensorimotor routes support newborn behaviours and, importantly, bias the inputs to the foundation model (e.g. orienting toward faces).

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob... If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!

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Tim Bayne @timbayne.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Very pleased that my commentary on Jonathan Birch's fantastic "The Edge of Sentience" has finally appeared. @birchlse.bsky.social and I agree on many things, but there was enough distance between our views to make this a productive exchange.

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Thank you very much for the discussion, Martin, @marielgoddu.bsky.social and Ruthe! Look forward to discussing more. Will any of you make it to CCN in Amsterdam?

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Thanks to fellow defenders @clionaod.bsky.social, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, and @charvetcj.bsky.social Defending the foundation model view of infant development www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Defending the foundation model view of infant development

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Not just one, but two fantastic chances to discuss how infant development can inform machine learning and vice-versa at CCN 2025 in Amsterdam!!! Satellite workshop sites.google.com/view/child2m... and Generative Adversarial Collaboration sites.google.com/ccneuro.org/...

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CCN 2025 Satellite Event

Background The human visual system is full of optimisations—mechanisms designed to extract the most useful information from a constant stream of incoming data. The field of neuro-AI has made significa...

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Fabulous chance to study brain health in athletes!

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Join us as an Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology. my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants

Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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Valerie Jill Sydnor @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Cortical maturation unfolds hierarchically, endowing the PFC with extended plasticity. But do timeframes of plasticity vary across PFC layers? With 7T quantitative myelin imaging, EEG, and cognitive data, we uncover heterochronous laminar maturation in the PFC 1/n. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jon Simons @jonsimons.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Announcing a new endowed Chair in Young People's Mental Health at @campsydept.bsky.social. An exciting opportunity to shape mental health strategy and conduct world-leading research in one of the most intellectually vibrant places in the world. Please share!

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The Dawson Professorship of Young People's Mental Health - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

The Dawson Professorship of Young People's Mental Health in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Heading to #BCCCD25. Looking forward to the meeting and our symposium New Insights in Infant Neuroscience on Saturday, put together by Moritz Koester with Barbara Pomiechowska, Giulia Orioli, Marlena Baldauf and discussant Stefanie Hoel.

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Congratulations to my colleague Ruth Byrne @tcddublin.bsky.social #tcin #tcdpsychology. What an achievement!

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🥁 FIT'NG is thrilled to announce our 2025 destination is 🌎 Dublin, Ireland. Join us next fall September 7 - 8, 2025! 🌐 Learn more about this beautiful and historic city by visiting: fitng.org/destination/ #FITNG2025 #RSNA2024 #BrainDevelopment

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

If you are a member of the FIT'NG society then please consider voting for me! To vote, check for the email, and here is a link describing the candidates... fitng.org/elections/ I can't believe this is my first ever election!! @fitngin.bsky.social

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The title page of the special issue, which reads "Introduction to the special issue on visual cognition and visuomotor control: A tribute to Mel Goodale" The authors of the Intro are: Jody C. Culham, Gavin Buckingham, Monika Harvey, Irene Sperandio, Ingrid S. Johnsrude

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 27/02/2024

i've been thinking about this story all day and can't get over it she took a massive pile of cash and rather than putting up fancy buildings or spending on some risky moonshot, she just went and made it free for young people to learn to be doctors, in the Bronx, in perpetuity what an utter badass

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Jess Butler @jessbutler.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Dorothy Bishop Prize Three £500 prizes for people who have improved research or promoted open research practices Nominate yourself or your pals by 28th January www.ukrn.org/2023/12/11/d...

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Dorothy Bishop Prize 2024 | UK Reproducibility Network

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Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/ Please share widely! 1/4

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Elizabeth Gunderson @gundersonlab.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

I am hiring a postdoc to start this summer in my lab at Indiana University, on an NSF-funded project on preschoolers’ flexible attention to magnitudes (intersection of numerical cognition and executive function). Apps can be submitted here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/22188. Please share!

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Silicon Valley billionaires are creating a future we were all warned about by dystopian novels that they mistake for instruction manuals. 🧪 Lots of painful & funny insights here from science fiction author @cstross.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech...

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Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real

Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook

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